The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 16, 1930, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, MAY-16; 1930 _.. The Bismarck Tribune An Independent N N Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck mail matter. D. Mann ..........+0.+.-President and Publisher i j iil? Member Audit Bureau of Member of The Associated Press ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Me Foreign Representatives SMALL, poe AA jobs (1ncorpora' i Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON A Navy Merely for a Spectacle Even if the cause of world peace does some day pro- Bress far enough to make disarmament possible, it may be necessary for us to maintain a big navy simply for the sake of the spectacle it provides. Nothing on earth gives quite the thrill that comes from the sight of a great fleet steaming along on its way. ‘The thing is in a class by itself. Even the most con- firmed pacifist can hardly help feeling a tingling in his epine at the sight. The United States fleet descended on New York the other day, and the rest of the country got a slice of New ‘York's thrill through the newspapers and moving pic- tures. ‘The navy always stages its pageants beautifully, and this one was no exception. First, out of the sea-mists at the entrance to the har- bor, came the battleships, gray and ponderous, majestic and sinister. Then came the lean, graceful cruisers with flags aflutter, the knife-edged destroyers, the unromantic but necessary supply and repair ships, the plodding sub- marines—five dozen ships of war, with enough concen- trated destruction in their innards to blow New York ff the face of the earth, It was a great spectacle; and fully as impressive was the sight of the vast fleet anchored in the Hudson later. But there was a sideshow.to this spectacie that hinted, very quietly, that this tremendous fleet may be out of | date in the very near future, disarmament or no disarm- ement. For this great fleet was greeted by another great fleet, less bulky but equally thrilling to look at—a group of 140 naval airplanes that circled over New York in geometric formations, dived down with roaring motors and saluted the gray warships as they steamed slowly along the bay. ‘And if the surface fleet was potential destruction on a huge scale, so was the aerial fleet. If those warships could have destroyed New York in half an hour, so could the airplanes. So this naval demonstration left us, once more, with a question: which of these two fleets is the stronger? Is the airplane making the warship obsolete, or is it mere- ly supplementing it and giving the navy a new weapon to use in conjunction with its surface vessels? A great many people would like to know the answer. ‘We civilians, who also want enlightment, can only hope that there will never be an occasion to settle the mat- ter in combat with a foe. Meanwhile, we might re- member that that whole fleet of 12 dozen airplanes cost less than one of the dreadnaughts on the water below. Politics Politics is like eugenics. The outsider may be the Nery fellow who should engage in it. What if George Washington had never been born because of birth con- trol? Or Abraham Lincoln? What if Calvin Coolidge had never gone into holding of office—that is into poli- tics? Shortly after his campaign manager and eight of his ‘workers had been arrested for alleged election irregula: ties, former Mayor William J. Fulton of Gary, Ind., shot himself to death in the bedroom of his home. He Jeft a note to his family, containing this significant mes- Bage to his son: “Bill, you have been a good boy. Take care of mother, finish school and carry on; but don’t get into politics.” It is that final admonition that makes one stop and “Don't get into politics!” The last word to his son of a man who had been in it for 17 years. “Don't get into politics!” ‘There is a good deal of meaning in that bit of advice. Zt signalizes the result of a trend that has long been ap- parent, but that we seldom have brought home to us so closely the long, steady decline of politics from the hon- red place it used to hold. A couple of generations ago a political career was the Boal of every ambitious young American. It was a highly honorable career; to be a senator, a mayor, a congress- gman or @ governor carried a great deal of prestige, marked one as a man of exceptional talent, testified to one’s ability and rectitude. : The result was that with few exceptions the best brains in the country turned to politics, and the public service ‘was enriched with statesmen of a high order. There were rascals in high office, to be sure—no country was ever without them—but on the whole politics was the one profession for the energetic man who wanted to make his mark upon his times. But now? The ambitious youngster, 20 to one, will look to business, to the law, to industry. Politics is in bad repute. The easiest way to get a reputation for sophistication is to ridicule congress. We are no longer surprised to read of a congressman or a mayor being caught in some law violation; nor are we surprised to find this Gary politician advising his son, “Don't get into politics.” We have brought all of this on ourselves. Politics doesn’t interest us as it used to. We devote all of our attention to other matters, and let the politicians do about as they like. We feel, broadly, just about as this Gary man evidently felt; that politics is no place for a fine, ambitious youngster. Politics won't regain its old eminence, either, until the @ay comes when we make it our business to study ques- tions earnestly, vote intelligently and demand 100 per cent performances from the men we elect to office. Ducking the Scolds ‘The news that a Pittsburgh man has been convicted fs @ common scold under a law several hundred years ‘old reminds us that our forefathers, while devoid of those modern scientific methods of dealing with lawbreakers Which are our rightful pride, nevertheless had one or fiwo ideas about things that were all to the good. ' After all, life holds few greater nuisances than the hap who always has a grievance and is always shooting (ptt his mouth about it. In colonial days the ducking 00 ing defeat of the pending Hawley-Smoot tariff bill, is stool was reserved for such; and while its victims were generally women, there is no reason why men should not get ducked occasionally, too. About the merits of this Pittsburgh citizen's case, of course, we know nothing; but the general idea suits us perfectly. A lot of suburban neighborhoods would be a lot more peaceful and quiet if this law could be revived extensively all over the country. The Economists’ Verdict ‘The round robin letter sent to President Hoover and congress by more than 1000 American economists, ask- an interesting document, The letter asserts that the bill will raise the cost of living, injure the great majority of Americans, including the farmers, damage export trade and “inevitably inject bitterness into international relations.” It should get some careful consideration. Included among the signers are faculty members from 179 colleges and universities, with such well-known names as those of Irving Fisher of Yale, Frank W. Taussig of Harvard and Wesley C. Mitchell of Columbia. Their names indicate that this is no partisan political attack, but a considered verdict by thoughtful, scholarly economists. No Abuse of Power Now that the shouting about the senate’s rejection of Justice Parker's appointment to the supreme court has died down, we might just as well get straightened out on one thing. Regardless of whether the senate did wisely or other- wise in rejecting the appointment, there is no basis whatever for the complaint that the senate was strain- ing its powers in presuming to pass on it at all. The writers of our constitution described their plan for the federal government as a system of checks and balances, with the executive, legislative and judicial branches all held within bounds by their powers over | each other. The senate was given the power to pass on presidential appointments for this reason, and in the Parker case it simply exercised that power in the manner designed by the constitution. What the senate did may or may not have been un- wise; it quite certainly was in no sense an abuse of power. Tourists and.Forest Fires The opening of the automobile touring season brings Americans once more up against the growing menace of the forest fire; not because the tourist is ever menaced by forest fires, but because he so often starts them. “Ninety-nine per cent of the forest fires now raging are caused by human carelessness,” declares Charles Lathrop Pack, famous president of the American Tree association, “The touring season is at hand and millions are going into our forests this year. These forests are fast becom- ing the nation’s playground, and the citiezn who enjoys them must get the point of view that these forests are his forests and that he must exercise the same care with fire while in them that he does in his own home. “In 1929, 250,000 ‘foreign’ cars carrying nearly a mil- lion people visited Montana. If a small percentage of this number is careless with fire, the result cannot be estimated. The traffic drain on our forest resources because of fire must be cut down to the point where lightning alone can be blamed.” If every motorist could take this warning to heart, our summer forest fire bill could be cut down very materially. | Editorial Comment | That Diversion Meeting (evils Lake Journal) ‘The meeting in Jamestown last week on the Missouri | river diversion project must have impressed the army | engineer who called it with the state wide interest in | the proposal, and the large delegations from many cities of the state could not help but impress upon him how earnestly the people of the state are interested in their future water supply. Of. course no action was taken at the meeting. One of the army engineers stated before the meeting that | he went to Jamestown to listen and not to talk, which is an attitude typical of army men. However, it is a foregone conclusion that the engineers were told much | which will be of advantage to them when they prepare | their reports on the proposed plan. The various cities | which sent large delegations are to be complimented | on their foresight and on their understanding of the! situation, and out of their converted action may come | something which will make North Dakota a greater state | in the future. (Minneapolis Journal) Harold R. Walker, young editor of the Hill City News, wins the first trophy to be awarded a Minnesota news paper for outstanding community service. He saved for his town its one and only railroad line, which it was about to lose. Young Mr. Walker, comparative novice in the news- Paper field, seems to have caught most admirably the spirit that is characteristic of the Minnesota country ‘editor. state, these boys who get out the weekly press are con- | tinuously engaged in community service. ‘Who was it saved Hill City’s railroad? The country editor. Who is it gets his town’s streets paved? The country editor. Who serves without pay, day in and day out, as his town’s civic and commerce association | if The Country Editor \ | and information bureau combined? The country editor: | & He works everlastingly at the job of making his town a better town. He serves his community as adviser, as stimulater, as backer or leader of every movement for the public weal. For all this work he gets no extra pay, save in those intangible dividends of satisfaction derived from labor well performed. He is for his town, his coun- ty, his people first, last and all the time. Some day, somewhere, somebody should erect a great monument to the country editor. } A Canadian View of It (Grand Forks Herald) Opponents of the St. Lawrence waterway have given it out that the St. Lawrence project is a dead issue be- | cause Canada is definitely opposed to it. The only pro- | nounced opposition to the plan has come from Montreal, | where dockyard interests fear that the completion of a | deep waterway from the ocean to the head of the lakes will deprive them of some business. In contrast to this local opposition is the attitude of the Toronto Globe, | & which discusses the camouflage plan of an “all-Ameri- | 5 can” waterway, which is proposed by Montreal interests | = for the same reason that an “all-American” waterway | § is supported by New York interests. Of this the Globe | says: The Globe believes that such a suggestion is pure- ly political; that there is no sane man or woman in Canada who really believes that Canada should pay the entire. cost of an international work from pie the United States would get at least half the | nefit. The Toronto Globe is the leading Liberal newspaper of the dominion, representing, as far as a modern news- paper can, the party which is in power in Canada today. | In the article from which the above quotation is taken | the Globe reminds its readers that Canada has deepened | the St. Lawrence river as far west as Montreal at an approximate cost of $47,000,000; that Canada and the | United States together have deepened or are deepening the sections of the St. Lawrence system be- | twen Prescott and the head of the lakes. Deep draft | shipping can thus proceed from the ocean as far west | as Montreal. Deep draft shipping can also proceed from | the head of the lakes to Prescott. But between Prescott | and Montreal there is a section of about 60 miles in length which is now navigable-only by smaller craft. It is proposed to deepen that section so as to connect the | two sections of the system. The completion of this | work by international co-operation is held to be natural and equitable. All of that does not look as if the waterway project | had died off in Canada, ’ For in the smaller communities all over this | = Now, We'll See if the Stuff Has a Kick! RE DOERR ENE ANAT | Today Is the | Anniversary of | FIRST OCEAN FLIGHT On May 16, 1919, the United States Navy seaplane, the NC-4, in company with two other similar planes, left Newfoundland for the Azores,to make the first attempt to span the ocean by air. The plane successfully achieved its object. being the first to make a transatlantic flight. The NC-4 reached Horta in 15 hours and 13 minutes, or an average speed of 78.4 knots per hour. On May 20 the plane proceeded to Ponta Del- gada, and then, on May 27, flew to Lisbon, Portugal,-810 miles, making the trip in nine hours and 43 minutes. The total flying time for the 2472 miles from Newfoundland to Portugal was 26 hours and 51 minutes. The trip was extended to Plymouth, Eng- land, where the flight was terminated. While the entire course of the NC-¢ flight was patrolled by de- Stroyers and dreadnaughts, the plane's achievement demonstrated the | possibilities of trans-Atlantic cross- ings by air. The next month, in fact, Captain John Alcock made the first. non-stop trans-Atlantic flight when he flew his Vickers-Vimy bomber plane from St. Johns, N. F., fo Clif- ton, Ireland, in 16 hours and 12 minutes. —_—__________* | Quotations | OO “I am coming to consider art as my definite career and tennis merely as @ side line."—Helen Wills. see “Were another life offered to me, I would travel the same road with the same companion.”— Mrs, Philip 1950 ° 3 .BEGIN HERE TODAY - ® popular night club hostess, demands that he refuse to go. explains that Bernadine {i widow of a war buddy who bi telling him i given her mat alle but her He, confides office, Phill; versation talks abo E ick out toys for “darling Bol and shows a letter from = dine in which Alan's vi r hoping for her accusnt! his office to work, to find PI ‘NEA 4 elping 7” ; oe * SERVICE TING. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER IX bad oa! sorry not to let you get your breath before rushing you out. again,” Phillipa said to Alan, when: she turned up the lights; “but now that you know I'm safely home, I'll have to say good night to you.” “Curfew?” “No—just something I always do when I come in, if it isn’t too late.” “And it isn’t too late?” “Not yet, but it will be in a fey minutes.” Tushed out: thrown out.” Phillipa started to laygh, broke it off. “I'll give you a choice,” she Ww Alan smiled. “I’m not only being 'm being practically sald, quite as though she'd just thought of what was on her mind, while, as a matter of fact, she'd been planning it all the way home. “You may stay if you like, but it means you'll have to pay a visit with me to the family upstairs.” Alan thought he'd like to know more about the family upstairs, be- fore consenting to visit them. “Why do you have to go there?” he asked. Phillipa spread her hands in a gesture that meant there was no answer. “Will you come and see?” She said, and turned toward the doot. Alan followed. “Four flights.” complimented. in a listening-attitude, eee came to their ears, Tapped again, louder. male voice bade them come in. “It’s on the top floor,” Phillipa revealed, smiling over her shoulder, They were dark, steep stairs, up which she went so gayly. Alan noted with admiration her light- ness, which he likened to that-of a gazelle, The comparison flattered Phillipa, but her devotion to the goddess of fashion deserved to be She led him to the door of the rear apartment, where she rapped softly on the scarred panel and waited, with her hand on one side, “I wodldn’t want to digturb him scheme asleep,” she explained 'to| an, i lapel sound of a sewing machine Phillipa The sound ceased abruptly, and a colorless fe- With no further hesitation, Phil- lipa turned the handle and entered the room. Alan held back a bit, He did not see the expression of sur- prise that swept over the features of the woman seated at the sewing machine, “Good evening,;- Mrs. Switzer,” Phillipa said pleasantly. “I’m very late; I. know, but I thought” Mr. Switzer might still be awake.” Mrs.. Switzer dragged herself to her feet, and smiled a welcome. She was puzzled. Phillipa rarely came to see them. On the other occasions Mrs. Switzer had asked for help. She'd been certain Phillipa’s mother had made her come up then. ‘The Switzers and the Wests were -that needle in a haystack in New York—neighbors that are old friends. Mamie Switzer and Martha | West had worked together before they were married, and dwelt near ‘by each other ever since. Neither had prospered - much. Martha had had only one child; ‘Mamie five. And then Frank Swit- “zer’s legs were crushed in an acci- dent. Mamie held the family to- getber through the aid of a brother. Last year the brother died. * But now Mamie had the help of her third- child—the’ first two having died in their infancy. She needed |to keep on sewing just the same. “Wh; 8s, I think Frank’ at] awake,” 5: id to Phillipa. “Did you want to see him?” Phillipa was in no wise abashed by the doubt in the woman's voice. “Oh, Mrs. Switzer, of course I ‘want to seo him,” she answered re- proachfully. Then: “I've brought Mr. Converse with me; my em- ployer, you know. Hope you don’t mind?” Mrs. Switzer, stared uncertainly Natalie was still awake, wide-eyed, tormented. Snowden, wife of England's chancel- lor of the exchequer. see “If any man or woman corrects your. pronunciation of a word in a pyblic place you have every right to punch him on the. nose. No jury in | the world will hold you guilty."—Hey- wood Broun, author. * * “It is amazing how nice people are |to you when they know you are going | away.”—Michael Arlen. xe * “Originality is undétected plagiar- ism."—Dean William Ralph Inge. xe * | “I am glad that there are men in | Congress big enough to drink and still | vote for what js right."—Rev. Clar- ence Ttue: Wilson. “ +e “I do not believe the Lord made fermented wine.”—Ella A. Boole, W./ \@ T. U. leader. gas RUTH for be N HEALTH+DIET &\ Dr Frank ADVICE Mi 3 The Sass’ May 0 Fell QUESTIONS IN REGARD TO Hi BY BRYECOY WHO CAN GE JEALTH € DIET WILL BE. IN CARE WISWERED THIS PAPER OF ENCLOSE STAMPED AODRESSEO ENVELOPE FOR REPLY | ©8868 ME. COV MALIN SERWCE £08 ANCELES- CAL. Dr. McCoy's menus suggested for the week beginning Sunday, May 18: Sunday Breakfast—One coddled egg. Three or 4 slices of Melba toast. Five stewed prunes. ‘ Lunch—Boiled potatoes, string beans. Avocado Salad. Dinner—Broiled chicken or rabbit. Carrots and peas, head lettuce. Ice cream. Monday Breakfast—Grapefruit as desired. Lunch—French artichoke, cooked Greens, sliced cucumbers. Dinner—Boiled fresh beef tongue. Cooked spinach and parsley. Vege- table salad molded in gelatine (peas and string beans). Baked apple. Tuesday Breakfast—French omelet, Melba toast. Stewed raisins. Lunch—Apples as desired. Dinner—Baked sea bass, cooked celery, 51 beans. Salad of sliced tomatoes on lettuce. Plain Jello or Jell-well. Wednesday Breakfast — Wholewheat muffins, Peanut butter. Stewed pears. Lunch—*Salad of tomatoes with cucumber jelly. Dinner — Roast nrutton, cooked mashed turnips, asparagus. Salad of grated raw beets. Pineapple whip. ‘Thursday Breakfast—Coddled. eggs, toasted cereal biseuit. Stewed apricots. Lunch—Corn, spinach, raw celery. Dinner—Broiled steak with mush- Tooms, cooked greens. Salad of chopped raw cabbage. Small dish of Junket. Friday Breakfast—Baked with cream. Lunch—Baked eggplant, lettuce. - Dinner—Broiled white fish, aspara- gus. Salad of whole tomatoes, Minced prunes in gelatin. Saturday Breakfast—Baked eggs, wholewheat muffins. Stewed figs. Lunch—Pint of fresh buttermilk, 10 or 12 dates. Dinner—Veal roast, vegetable souf- fle. Salad of raw asparagus tips, eaten as'celery. Raspberry whip. *Salad of tomatoes with cucumber jelly: Soak-a tablespoonful of gela- tin. in a-half cup of celery water (drained from cooked celery) and dis- solve over the teakettle. Have ready stuffed apple spinach, @ cupful of finely minogd cucumbers | 0% a, DEWEY GROVES, furious, rebellious, But he'd never wanted to take another woman in his arms and kiss her. And that was precisely what he had wanted to do with Phillipa West. He didn’t like it, thinking it over on his way home. Phillipa was a sweet: girk She deserved some thing bétter than a man's left handed affection. “But, bang it all, I'm not in love with ‘her,” Alan argued with him- self. Alan remembered for hours the touch of her hands, as they lay for @ moment in his before she took them suddenly’ away. He remem- bered the. shy retreat of her gaze from his, the soft breath that left her lips before she sald: “Now you must go." He had believed, when he mar- ried Natalie,:that he never could Jove another woman. His. tender- ness toward Phillipa filled him with disappointment in himself, made him, before he reached home, wish to make up to Natalie in some way, though he still held her to be at fault. Outside her closed door he halted &@ moment and listened. There was no sound. He half lifted his hand to rap, dropped it back again and went on to his own room. Phillipa was in his thoughts when fell asleep. . ATALLE was still awake, wide eyed, tormented. Alan thought, at breakfast, that she looked rocky. He asked himself why she shouldn't look that way with no sweetness whatsoever in her nature. Now he had forgotten at Alan, as he stepped forth and quietly acknowledged the introduc tion that Phillipa made with a little stir of excitement. e “May we go in to see Uncle Frank?”” Phillipa asked in the sweetly ingratiating tones she had assumed for the moment. A look of bewilderment took pos- session of Mamie Switzer’s counte- nance as Phillipa turned hurriedly toward the alcove that had been “Uncle Frank's” one spot on earth for so many years, Dull anger replaced the bewilder- ment as she heard Phillipa cooing to the crippled man. Uncle Frank indeed! The hussy hadn’t called him that. in ages; not since she'd grown, up and got fine ideas. Her indignation reached its peak ‘when she saw Phillipa hand “Uncle Frank” a box of cigarets from her bag, with the remark that she had almost forgotten all about them. . eee 667 IKE as if she'd ever given him anything before,” Mamie mut- tered to herself. “But I guess I. know what you're up to, young lady. ‘Tryin’ to'make some kind of a play with your boss; that’s what you're doin’.” If that were Phillipa’s intention, she was succeeding rather well. Alan felt immensely approving to- ward her. 5 And when she sent him away with a pleasant good night at her door, he wondered if she had read his mind, He was a little afraid of himself. He'd never felt quite so unfaithful to Natalie before. He'd been angry, of the days before her jealousy had 60 dreadfully changed her. The past would-not hold him now. More significant, the shock of finding himself thinking unfaith- fully had passed. Already he was getting used to it. He was rather in a hurry to get downtown, tobe with Phillipa again. His manner with Natalie was distant, abrupt. She saw that he had lost some thing from his former attitude on these occasions, these mornings after unmadeup quarrels; dread of a scene it seemed to her. With the thought, terror struck deep at her heart, - Wordless, she let ‘him go. Alan's spirits mounted higher and higher ashe neared the office, What a re- let to get into a world that wasn’t all cluttered up with sentiment and emotional upheavals—with jeal- ousy, for instance. No dark looks and frowning brows. Competition, strife, yes, but it had to do with business. A fellow. could ute his head and let his heart do its proper work: His step was lighter than it had been for months, when the elevator and dumbfounded the operator. with his- cheerful smile and breezy “Good-morning.”. Alan was actually on the verge his he got into whistling when he got off on his tower floor and walked briskly down the hall. The cloud that had hung over him—his dread of Nata- Ue's jealousy even when their skies were blue—had gone to where all dark clouds should go. He was al- most happy. And then he opened the door. His eyes sought Phillipa’s desk at once and his whistle died aborning, (To Be Continued) to which add a few celery seeds and a little salt. Mix with the dissolved gelatin. Dip a half dozen tomatoes diet addressed to tim, cars of The Tribune. Enclose s stamped addressed envelope fer reply. into boiling water, slip off the peel, and hollow out slightly. at stem end. Fill with the cucumber and gelatin | mixture and place on ice to become firm. Serve the tomatoes on lettuce, with a cream cheese dressing which is made by thinning the cheese with cream to the desired consistency and adding a little chopped parsley or cress. Garnish with a bit of pimento. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Avoid Starches in High Blood Pressure Question—G. McC, writes: “I have high blood pressure, and would like to know if there are any special foods to avoid which may aggravate it more than others.” Answer—It is better to -avoid all foods except the acid fruits for a few days at the beginning of your treat- ment, as this will reduce the high blood pressure more quickly than any other dietetic method. Sometimes the patient can continue on the acid dict until the blood pressure becomes nor- mal. Following this,.it is advisable to avoid the use of starches for some time. Contrary to prevailing opinion, it-is not necessary to avoid meat en- tirely in this disorder. Melba Toast Question—Mrs. W. asks: “May Melba toast be used with the fruit and milk combination?” Answer—Melba. toast may be used with any other kind of food, and com- bines well with milk and fruit. Salts for Punishment Question—R. J. asks: “What do you think of giving a little nine-year- old boy epsom ‘salts as a punishment. His mother gives it to him every time he disobeys. If this. is continued will it not cause chronic constipa- tion?” Answer—It should never be neces- sary to give salts as a laxative to a child and certainly not as a punish- ment. This mother should read some of the latest books on child psychol- gy. (Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ra — an BARBS \ | © ‘The Western League magnates who introduced night baseball in Des | Moines recently under artificial light | probably thought that was the best | way to bring out the stars, | ex * OR ; And many a third base runner, | under this system of playing, will be | accused of being afraid to go home | in the dark. x * Oe If the illuminated pastime takes hold in the majors, it is our guess | Art Shires will monopolize the spot- light ;that a famous Brooklyn pitcher | will be dubbed Dazzle Vance and that the customers will be called electric | fans, * * * | ‘The convict who escaped from the | Ohio penitentiary diguised as a bar-. ber probably talked himself out. * * * Every time people kiss, a doctor says, they shorten their lives by two minutes. And judging from some of the closeups we have seen on the | screen it is a wonder why some movie folk don't drop dead. | 2s 8 A dog in New York bit eight per- ‘sons the other day. The most exact- | ing editor will admit that is news. (Copyright, 1630, NEA Service, Inc.) VIOLET RAYS CAN PIERCE NEW NON-FRAGILE GLASS Pittsburgh—()—A glass that is not | fragile and that does not shut off the | ultra-violet rays of the sun has been ‘produced from natural gas by Mellon institute. The product is expected to find its chief use as a plate or coating for other materials, as, for instance, a lining for food containers made of metal. Besides the glass, which can be moulded into any desired form and tinted, other types have been de- veloped. One may be used as a trans- parent lacquer, because of its property of adhering strongly to metal, glass, ‘and wood. Still another may be used to pro- vide ‘@ glass-like finish to fabrics, | paper, leather, wood, or other ma- tegals, or in pigmented lacquer coat- gs. RAILROAD IS CENTURY OLD ‘Wilmington, N. C.—(#)—The At- lantic Coast Line railroad, which grew up from a 59-mile road from Peters- burg to Blakely, Va., is observing its centennial this year. The line owns or control 14,480 miles of rails. = FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: The modern girl's motto is “Every